Felon pleads guilty to possession of gun in school zone

A New Orleans man entered a guilty plea for possession of a firearm and ammunition in a school zone, the Justice Department announced this month.

Kenneth Jackson, 24, was charged with the one count in March after authorities arrested him for shooting at two people.

According to court documents, surveillance video captured Jackson shooting at two men sitting in a Pontiac G6 after an argument within 1,000 feet of Homer A. Plessy Community School on March 9.

Federal agents conducting surveillance in the area confirmed with New Orleans police that Jackson was the shooter. They witnessed him 35 minutes before wearing the same clothes as in the video.

The criminal complaint describes Jackson, after the argument, as retrieving something from a car and then concealing it under his shirt in a manner in which an individual would conceal a firearm as he walked to a porch. When the Pontiac drove by, Jackson fired shots in its direction and at least one round hit the windshield. The car’s occupants also seemed to return fire before driving off.

Although Jackson admitted to investigators after his March 21 arrest that he shot at the two men, agents obtained a recording of a phone call Jackson made five days later where he admitted he didn’t even know the victims’ identities.

A review of Jackson’s criminal record shows a 2015 conviction of cocaine possession and another conviction from 2013 for illegal carrying of a weapon.

Jackson will be sentenced in a federal court on Jan. 24. For possession of a gun in a school zone, he faces up to 10 years in prison.

The revolving door keeps lawyers making money and guess who are running our country ? ” Why lawyer or course ” ! Makes every lawyer happy !” . Average Americans are raking dead leaves . Lawyers rake in the green under the dead leaves . There is even money to be made in dead people . I met a doctor who’s family was in the burial business .

Walter Hargain

Sure. One count for possession of a firearm and ammunition in a school zone, but why don’t we let him off on the two counts of attempted murder. There is something wrong with the system, folks.

Mike in Illinois

Yes Walter, there sure is and it boils down to this –
Law is supposed to me made in the legislature, not the judiciary. There is not to be any prosecutorial discretion, there is to be no plea “deals” concocted to avoid a full trial that tries right and proper actual charges for actual crimes.

Case Law is the problem, as lawyers now build law, make law, from within the judiciary and do so while actually refusing to, and trying to arrange a means for, not doing the job they were hired by the taxpayers to do.

SO he SHOOTS, but pleas to possession, when we know that possession is a RIGHT…..and even to the tune of being a prohibited person, this article tells us that one “charge” he was convicted of MAKING him a prohibited person was no more than carriage, which is, again, a RIGHT in the first place. Add to it, possession of cocaine being something that supposedly strips away a inherent, inalienable, fundamental, pre existing government itself, power to decide on a case by case basis removed from the hands of government right is all that is left? Yeah, where is that power of prohibition again? Oh yeah, the 21st amendment, ahem.

Anyway, we see here a JACKED UP driminal justice system where they are more concerned with trying to protect their ill gotten gains of “prohibited person” that they take a SHOOTER and obtain a “conviction” on admitted possession – they play for a CONCESSION, a willing concession, as if that somehow supports their chicanery regarding snatching RIGhTs.

The man should have been charged with SHOOTING at people outside self defense and convicted of THAT, with the other HYPE and DRAMA left to rot on the vine, the poison vine, from which it sprouted. See this for what it is folks – a bunch of hogwash showing WHY we see outright criminals on the street to commit more and more uglier crimes! The “Lawyers” worry more about playing their politics and building their “case law” than they do about administering JUSTICE. This one here is the perfect example of it.

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Didn’t United States vs. Lopez in 1995 already state that the establishment of gun free school zones is not a power delegated to the Congress, because the carrying of a weapon is not related to commerce among the states.